DO YOU TEACH TYPOGRAPHY? Here is a project you should give twice. The first time during the first week of the semester. The second time during the last week.
Read moreProof of our Albion's origin
Over the past couple of years we've put together a lot of circumstantial evidence that our Albion iron hand press was originally purchased to print The Frick Collection Catalog. We've finally gotten our answer.
Read moreThe actual March for Our Lives
We hit the wall right at Pennsylvania Avenue and 7th Street when the March turned into a singularity, and the space between people disappeared. We were in an excellent position near speakers, a straight on view of a giant screen, and the Capital.
Read moreJohn Bolton : The WH / Lead Graffiti connection
Ralph Begleiter was the director of a University of Delaware speaker series entitled "Global Agenda" that invited speakers to talk about a political theme. In 2005 it was called "Rx for the President." The final speaker that year was John Bolton. We don't remember the reason, but Bolton canceled. We suspect the controversy around his hiring was probably an element.
Read moreMarch for Our Lives / 03.24.18
We cannot imagine the additional pressure that the rash of school shootings is having on this generation. We want to show our support for sane gun laws.
Read moreEverything the same, but different
We hated working for a client who came armed with a logo and an accompanying design manual dictating specific color options for both the logo and the corresponding background, how close images could occur to the logo, etc.
Read moreDreaming Stephen Hawking
How Ink Writes Poetry. Click the image to get the whole story first and then come back to this blog entry.
Ray has long been mesmerized by the idea of there being a Stephen Hawking, much less that there was a real Stephen Hawking. Many other things that just wander out of the darkness of his shelves of experiences and Stephen Hawking is one of them.
Read moreManhattan Book Fair
Looking from our corner back up through the 40 tables of fine press books.
THERE WAS A STRANGE ENERGY at the Manhattan Book Fair on Saturday, March 10, and it happened right out of the gate.
Read moreNewark Post 10th anniversary front page
The Newark Post, the local Newark, Delaware, newspaper got wind of our 10th anniversary celebration and sent a writer / photographer to join us.
Read moreUpper Chesapeake Book Arts Group
RD Burton walked a group of members of the Upper Chesapeake Book Arts Group through the process of producing a non-adhesive accordion-fold book at Lead Graffiti.
Read more